"they said it couldn't be done, but... we did it." Best quote ever.

@Mrs.LadeyBug

Ай бұрын

That’s when you gotta… because “they” said it. The impossibilities we’re thankful to have done over the years have been fueled by that statement, and fulfilled by the grace of God!

I believe these are the ones made in Pagosa Springs, Colorado and distributed in Canada by another company. I have been in these dozens of times and they are awesome. In Pagosa, where we used to live, many local citizens have them, though the company does sell them to a MUCH bigger market. They are very effective, though my good friends there just put up the 42 ft one this year and start to finish it was $100k for everything, including site work, electric, plumbing, foundation, labor, garden beds, dirt, etc. They have a large family that's now expanding to grandkids, and given the times we live in, they felt the 42ft was the best for their personal needs. It's huge and has a ton of space. With some interior trellising and also vertical growing, you and truly grow a ton of food in there. I've seen people grow figs in the domes at high altitude, zone 4.

Arctic Acres certainly makes a well built geodesic dome greenhouse klt. Shawn James at My Self Reliance had a 26' one built on his homestead and it works well for him.

@ArkopiaYouTube

Ай бұрын

I was impressed with it.

Have to thank Buckminster Fuller for the Geodesic dome I really wanted to do a dome greenhouse but the heating was a big concern. However, if you're heating with an outside boiler I could do that but not with natural gas as that is not available here in the Columbia valley BC. Could do a wood heated outside boiler. I wasn't wanting a cement floor as I believe the plants are better growing in the earth as well as wanting to implement passive solar for the most part. Thank you for the wonderful video . . . you're changing my mind about some of my preconceived notions :)

Fantastic tour & conversation! They have done the space so beautifully! Thanks for sharing! I’m sure they’ll be very successful with their sales of plants. Blessings to all 🤗🇨🇦

With ground register heat exchanger you could reduce heat loss during necessary humidity ventilation.

It's amazing how spacious this dome is!

Winderdome Resort BC approves this video! Dome On!

very nice green house, hope it goes well for them

Good video Dean, very beautiful greenhouse and so well managed !

Very fun to see different setups!

Amazing. Even with 3 layers of poly, there is still plenty of sunlight getting through to allow all those plants to thrive.

Top vents dump most unwanted humidity out in winter when the sun shines, very manageable!

@JohnGuest45

Ай бұрын

Problem is you`ll also dump valuable heat along with the humidity.

@trentwszolek2387

Ай бұрын

@JohnGuest45 Doesn't work how you would think, it generates more heat than u want every day of the year, you gotta vent it anyway, it's a solar generator, it works out

@JohnGuest45

Ай бұрын

@@trentwszolek2387 Venting excess heat into the yard in the winter is a waste if you have the option of storing it in the ground.

Great

Great info

What a great setup. Thanks for the tour.

Looks like a really nice design! Thanks for sharing!

Very interesting!!

Great job yall

Looks great! Smart. Thanks. 👍👍

Super Cool ! Thank you for the video and tour

The high school in Lacombe uses solar thermal tubes to heat the water in the fish pond which becomes the thermal mass to keep the greenhouse warm.

@ArkopiaYouTube

Ай бұрын

I’ll mention that to Trent. He’s likely doing some solar PV water heating projects like I still plan on doing. 👍

@JohnGuest45

Ай бұрын

If there are fish in the pond the maximum water temperture will be limited. You also have to consider evaporation of the water which will increase the greenhouse RH% but wont increase the temperature.When the humid air meets the cooler glazing you`ll have condensation and potentially indoor rain.

@constancewulf6520

Ай бұрын

There are 3 more by red deer and 1 in Rochester Alberta just went up in the last couple of years!

It would be amazing if it could be permitted as a residence/ greenhouse !

Awesome I need to get one.

Love it!..

I had planned to get one of these years ago when we lived near Edmonton, but then we ended up moving for education. They have improved with the polycarbonate since I looked at them on the new fangled Google search way back in the olden days. I think I printed off a copy of the web page and put it in my “inspiration” file. A paper file, for the young folks… it is like a file online, but it is a space-consuming paper-filled cabinet. Lol! 😊

Wish I had space for something like this.

@TaxEvasion777

Ай бұрын

Can probably do a small one. Just dig the middle deeper down for trees.

It's kind of crazy to me that the house I'm currently designing with my wife that has a 70ft long greenhouse built onto the south wall (kind like an Earthship, but post-framed) has the same floor area as that one dome. $60k, though,.... that's a lot.

@CanadaBananaFarms

Ай бұрын

Keep us up to date on your progress please.

@wifydelia

Ай бұрын

That’s amazing I been looking into more Earthship styles…

@dougjohnson9410

24 күн бұрын

Good luck with your build. I'd love to build a big greenhouse like that and just put a tiny home in there

@chaseweeks2708

24 күн бұрын

@@dougjohnson9410 that can definitely be done. I've seen quite a few different takes on that idea. One of my previous designs had a large greenhouse/four-season patio bridging between the smaller house and garage-mahal so if never have to walk outside in the dead of winter or hard rain to hit the gym or work on cars and stuff

Nice video and overview. Dean you turning into the Bob Villa of green houses. 🤣 I always liked the geodesic homes. I’m currently visiting the Mississippi Gulf Coast and saw one on top of pilings. Bay St Louis was in the eye of Katrina and the new building code along the coast is 30’ above the sea level for your floor elevation.

The efforts you are making to combat climate change are commendable good sir! Lol good vid

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Looks awesome much smaller scale fore me though 🥴

What do they say about travel..? Great content Dean

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When using polycarbonate panels in geodesic greenhouses, it's important to note that they usually contain Bisphenol A (BPA), which can leak through condensation onto your produce. 😐

How do you deal with humidity without dropping your temp? No where near as cold at the bottom of NZ but its around 70-90%RH outside so we need to move some air

@ArkopiaYouTube

Ай бұрын

Release humidity during sunny days when you have to release heat anyways

Love this! I have looked into this for manitoba region, and i wondered what the heating cost, or what their total cost was to build and set it up for the year?

@ArkopiaYouTube

Ай бұрын

They definitely went all out on the greenhouse; but you can do a kit however you like. It has a heating cost for sure if you want it tropical all winter, but for all they get for production it would be worth it. No exact numbers for you though. ✌️

@robertmoray988

Ай бұрын

Take a look at the 'wallipini' Geothermal partially underground greenhouse kits the elderly man in Nebraska sells. He has a video on you tube with millions of views. Search for : 'Nebraska retiree uses earths's heat to grow oranges in snow' on you tube. A 1785 sq ft geothermal greenhouse maintains a 15 Celsius minimum temp year round . The man in Nebraska grows citrus year round and does not heat at all (or very very minimally) in extreme winter his greenhouse. The kit itself is 20K Canadian . Add the digging of the geothermal canals, and digging the greenhouse itself (8 ft deep) is a total of about 70-75K Canadian . Not cheap but better in a lot of ways than the geodesic dome, for the same amount .

Whoa this is awesome. Suspect shipping costs to UK might be a tad eyewatering sadly..

@JohnGuest45

Ай бұрын

I`d guess the shipping weight is at least 2 metric tonnes. There is around 1000kg in the struts and 500kg in the polycarbonate. The money must be in the polycarbonate and labour, because i cant see the dome itself (struts, hubs and pony wall) costing more than a couple of grand in materials.

@Joseph_Dredd

Ай бұрын

@@JohnGuest45 I'm guessing therefore that it's going to be "that's a negative ghostrider" :) A sad disappointing but what an awesome setup you have.

@JohnGuest45

Ай бұрын

@@Joseph_Dredd I guess the shipping cost might look quite reasonable compared to the import VAT :)

@Joseph_Dredd

Ай бұрын

@@JohnGuest45 Hahaha yes I'd forgotten aboutt he eye watering 20% VAT on top - thieving bastards that HMRC are!

Please if you could answer this question- How do you handle humidity in this greenhouse?

@ArkopiaYouTube

Ай бұрын

Venting all day in summer, and a short time in winter fixes any unwanted humidity

@acanadianineurope814

Ай бұрын

@@ArkopiaKZread and the prairies are relatively quite dry

@theverdictisstillout

Ай бұрын

Here in Ontario in my 10 mm polycarbonate covered greenhouse it literally rains inside as we transition from day to night and night to day. I run a lot of fans blowing right across the greenhouse skin. That helps. Just wondered if you have other methods.

@trentwszolek2387

Ай бұрын

@theverdictisstillout Would be more of a issue with 10mm vrs 16mm tripple, it also has a R value , never cool to the touch, moving air is prob best and dehumidifiers

How much were all the fittings minus wood and poly carbonate for that big?

What kind of wind can it withstand?

@ArkopiaYouTube

Ай бұрын

We live in the prairies where the wind never stops. A dome is a strong structure

@arcticacres

Ай бұрын

Growing Domes are built to last: engineer rated up to 185km/hour wind speeds, due in part to the geodesic design and the quality building materials. Our US partner has customers who have endured storms with even higher wind speeds in places like Florida, Georgia, and other areas that experience periodic hurricanes and tornados.

Is nice when u own your land😢

Any contact info for Dayna, i would like to visit her on Friday May 10 is her dome open for sale that day

@ArkopiaYouTube

Ай бұрын

Here’s their Facebook page to reach out: The Dome Garden: facebook.com/share/iq4uQ6pyspRMvQXU/?mibextid=LQQJ4d

@Passover-dk8tw

Ай бұрын

@@ArkopiaKZread thank you

Where can I buy the parts

@JohnGuest45

Ай бұрын

Anywhere that sells timber, aluminum and triple wall polycarbonate. For a 42ft dome like this (excluding any door openings) you`ll need 190 struts, all less than 7ft long, 71 hubs and 120 polycarbonate panels. Base diameter 40.5ft, height 15.5ft, external surface area around 2000sq feet.

That's so cool but still to big for my yard

@trentwszolek2387

Ай бұрын

They start at 15ft up to 42ft

@FromgardentokitchenwithDoug

Ай бұрын

@trentwszolek2387 I saw that I live in town so 15 feet still to big my current greenhouse is 8×6

WOOD WILL ROT! Waste of time. Use anything but

@JohnGuest45

Ай бұрын

Depends on what you use to protect it.

@trentwszolek2387

Ай бұрын

Ceader has natural oils resistant to rot, will go 20 plus years on a deck unprotected, forever under a roof

@kelllefae3026

Ай бұрын

Lady said ...cedar won't rot in their lifetime

@JohnGuest45

Ай бұрын

@@kelllefae3026 Bigelow Brook Farm used western red cedar for his dome and it rotted.

I'm not sure if you'd want to go to Utah to visit someone's greenhouse, but they have an extremely low tech system that works amazingly on Chads Midgley's properties... He's on Facebook, Instagram, and a little bit on KZread

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